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Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the newly appointed president of the Italian bishops’ conference, faces demands from abuse victims for an independent inquiry into the sexual abuse of minors by Italian priests.
A former editor of L’Os…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Amazon region, Brazil, Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, Church in the Americas, lead, News |
Announced as one of the 21 new cardinals that Pope Francis will create on August 27, Brazilian Archbishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner of Manaus is expected by many in the region to be the Amazon’s voice in the Vatican.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Associated Press, Church in the US, Gun control, Gun violence, lead, News, President Joe Biden, school shooting, Texas |
President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde on Sunday, mourning privately for three hours with anguished families of the 19 schoolchildren and two teachers killed by a gunman.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Abominations like mass shootings lead us to look for causes in the form of racism, of guns, of media distortions, but we must resist the quick-draw realm of social media takes and their inability to distinguish between proximate and remote causes.
Posted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Bishop Robert McElroy, Cardinals, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Pope Francis |
With regard to the 21 new cardinals Pope Francis announced Sunday, including 16 under 80 and thus eligible to vote for the next pope, the question appears simultaneously easier and maddeningly more difficult to answer.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Nancy Pelosi wraps her support of abortion in the mantle of the Gospel of Matthew. She stated that the parable of Chapter 25 was “the agenda of the Church and is rejected by many who side with them on terminating a pregnancy.”
Posted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Gun control, Gun violence, lead, mass shooting, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, school shooting, Social Justice, Texas, Vatican |
With debate over gun control in the United States flaring up again following the deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas last week, the Vatican’s top body on life issues has said a deeper reflection on the topic is needed.
Read MoreReading I Acts 19:1-8
While Apollos was in Corinth,
Paul traveled through the interior of the country
and down to Ephesus where he found some disciples.
He said to them,
“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?”
T…
Posted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Middle East - Africa, News |
Pope Francis greets South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir at the Vatican on March 16, 2019. / Vatican Media.
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 30, 2022 / 02:17 am (CNA).
The Vatican unveiled on Saturday the itinerary of Pope Francis’…
Archbishop Michael Jackels of Dubuque, Iowa, has issued a statement decrying the “misguided response” of some prelates to the public support of abortion by Catholic politicians.
The archbishop argues that it is wrong to withhold the Euchar…
In a message to the leaders of the International Catholic Migration Commission, Pope Francis stressed the need to help the “millions of asylum seekers, refugees and displaced persons in other parts of the world, who desperately need to be welcome…
Read MorePope Francis praised B’nai B’rith International as an organization “tirelessly committed to humanitarian causes,” in a May 30 audience with the group’s leaders.
The Pope said:
When we think of many conflicts and dangerou…
The Apostolic Penitentiary has announced that a plenary indulgence will be granted to the faithful, under the usual conditions, if they participate in the celebration of the 2nd World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly on July 24.
The indulgence will…
While announcing the elevation of 21 new members to the College of Cardinals on May 29, Pope Francis also said that the full College would meet to discuss the apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium, with which he has restructured the offices of t…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Commentary, News |
Because Jesus ascended, we, too, have ascended. In our own lives as Christians, we are brought higher every year by the…
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Read MoreTHE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath, On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking, Down…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis said on Sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including San Diego Bishop Robert Walter McElroy, at…
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